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Word: silks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world-famed Newhouse steel trap, made silk, plated silverware, did a big tourist trade in vegetable dinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stirpiculture | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...high Soviet official is Supreme Court Judge Karl Lintin. The Soviet Loeb-Leopold pair, instead of murdering a Communist Bobbie Franks, were responsible for the death of Mrs. Lintin. Her son, a "mama's darling" of 16, is described as having always worn silk shirts and having his bed linen changed daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...good Dean Landis is as smooth as silk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VERSATILE DEAN | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...SALESMAN to His Majesty (after Queen Elizabeth has purchased three dozen pairs of silk stockings and walked on a short distance) : "May I show you these stockings, sir? Now you'll know them when the bill comes in. Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Royal Family | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great desire for gentility, is glad to get away from home for the first time, glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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